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join chris matthews for a special airing of his documentary "barack obama: making history." that's this sunday at 6:00 p.m. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. @ñ >>> welcome back to "hardball." while much of the focus and scrutiny has been on the real challenges on the republican party, but there's been less attention paid to questions facing democrats over the next four years. though president obama handily won re-election, the democrats face a challenge of their own. as jonathan martin and maggie haberman pointed out today, quote, he presides over a party that has largely papered over its divisions for the past four years thanks to the president's commanding popularity. but almost as soon as the echo of obama's inaugural address fades and he becomes a lame duck, democrats are going to have to face a central and unresolved question about their political identity, will they become a center left democratic leadership council by a different name party or return to a populist left-leaning approach that mirrors their electoral coalition? to tackle that question we'r

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of the history book? >> that is certainly the intention of the obama administration. you know, it was certainly their intention the first four years of their administration, as well. but going into the next four years, what has really changed in the last several weeks is the public sentiment has swung so far in their favor in the wake of the newtown shootings. so they realize that they've got a tough fight ahead of themselves. facing a republican-led house of representatives. certainly we've got motivated people on the other side of the argument who are trying to defend what they perceive to be their second amendment rights to bear arms. but with public sentiment having swung the pendulum in the favor of the obama administration's platform and tightened gun control legislation and the specific clauses banning assault rifles and high capacity magazines, i think they're more than motivated now. >> gun sales are up since newtown. up since newtown. does that tell you that investors at least think there's not going to be amainingful decrease in the value of gun manufacturers and in the sale of guns

. >> and will to the best of my ability -- >> it was a moment for the history books. president obama gets set to take his second oath of office. there is a national day of service. a private and a public swearing in followed by a parade and inauguration ball. as steve handelsman tells us there's a more serious undertone for this inauguration. >> reporter: washington is almost ready. massive security, barriers going into place, bleachers along pennsylvania avenue for monday's inaugural parade. and the presidential viewing stand bulletproof rebuilt every four years. but since a huge crowd full of hope saw the first obama swearing in, america has lowered its expectation. only 35% in the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll says the country is heading in the right direction. and president obama's new portrait, his approval stands at 62%. his likability at 61%. but only 29% say he's working effectively with congress. and today there's more 0 conflict. responding to the president's declaration that he won't negotiate over the debt ceiling, republicans backed down. they raised the borrowing limit but just for th

of a chocolate sandwich. >> and i like chocolate. >> tell your republican colleagues. >> president obama came into office promising a lot of change but the tone in washington really got worse. what gives here? what happened? >> it did. i think when you look at the history of it, you had something very different with president obama, something that never happened before. and sort of culturally -- >> hang on. your beard. just pull your mic away -- there you go. >> there we go. is that better? >> yeah. >> sorry, got to shave tomorrow. so i think you -- >> come here, cornell. >> you're going fix it? >> yeah. >> that's love right there. that's love right there. >> go ahead. >> so i think when the president came in, you saw a lot of people who were a little shocked, a little sort of cultural shocked by what was going on. so it was a natural reaction to some -- to me, sort of more curl turley than anything. when you saw the reaction to the president, you know that wasn't all about politics. and i think moving forward, you see him talking about it's not just him being the change. but we are the chang

, at the longitude and latitude, standing before the grave of this slave who changed history and made the history of the present day possible. without douglas, there is no oba obama. >> without lincoln, there is no obama, so it's not only a matter, is it, of faith in history, it's a matter of faith in people who have the imagination and the audacity to make history. >> absolutely. and certainly frederick douglas understood his role in terms of acting as an advocate during lincoln's administration. he was obviously putting some pressure on the white house. at the same time he was issuing a call to arms to his own community to rise up because he understood that history ultimately comes from below. you know, he is enveloping lincoln in a movement. there is a movement that surrounds lincoln and the other abolitionists to move all this forward and make it a reality. >> there were not 10,000 people there with you at the tomb, but the poem suggests someone else had been there and left this newspaper? >> there were other people who had come before me and had left various objects. i don't know who they we

in northeast d.c. president obama and his family will be volunteering theire ahed of his swearing-in ceremony for his second term. it will be happening on monday. let's take a look at some of the history behind presidential inauguration. >> we now have coverage of president obama performing his volunteer duty from the state at service. we are taking you to northeast d.c.. >> that was a good one. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] >> just taking a look at president obama, some of his volunteer work for the day along with his wife michelle, the first lady. they were in northeast washington d.c., all part of this day of service that is happening on the national mall and around washington. over the weekend we will have the official swearing-in ceremony on sunday -- the inaugural ceremony. we will start live coverage at 10:30. on monday, the public swearing- in and luncheon at the capitol. that is starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern. live coverage here on c-span. next we are going to take a look at richard fisher. he talks about banks and the economy. he says "too big to fail remains a threat." he served a

's the seventh time that happened in the nation's history so president obama will be officially sworn in here at the white house in a private ceremony in the blue room with families and chief justice john roberts. the day will begin with vice president biden getting sworn in by justice sotomayor. that's happening at a different time than president obama because we are told according to several officials that the chief justice at the justice department has done investigating on this, and some reporting on this, apparently biden wants justice sotomayor to swear him in. there is a schedule you willing conference and she has a book signing and they'll get that taken care of earlier in the day. the vice president and the president will head to a wreath laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery and then during the evening they will attend an inaugural reception. so it is a busy day as they prepare for the public swearing in which will take place on monday and we should say today is the national day of service. both vice presidented bien and president obama participating in that earlier today,

at the history, getting votes for the debt ceiling is always difficult. >> jon: president obama a little testy there answering a question from cbs news white house correspondent major garrett, formerly of this network. it was mr. obama's final news conference of his first term. so, what did you think, judy, about the questions that the president received? only seven of them for a news conference. the answers went on very long. >> you might even say stonewalling answers, each answer was roughly the equivalent of about seven and a half minutes. no wonder there's no time for follow-ups. look, the white house press corps, how many times do we have to talk about it. other than major garrett, who was a sight to see there, even jake tapper said, oh, yes, major always asks good questions, when he was on fox we didn't call on him much. that's what this is about. the white house press corps has to be more skeptical. >> and partially a technical plight. one way he filibusters or runs out the clock, change the way the mic would be, they used to be shotgun mics and now they pass down the aisle, it looks li

are expected in the nation's capital monday for president obama's inauguration. coming up the rush for tickets and the distance some people traveled to be part of history. >>> undergraduate applications to the university of california's nine campuses have taken a big jump this year. nearly 175,000 high school seniors and transfer students have applied for admission next fall, an increase of 8.6% from last year partly driven by a surge in applications from outside california. >>> the tsa is changing the kind of full body scanners used at san jose and oakland airports. it's going to stop using the scanners that show an image that looks like a naked body in the coming months and switch to a different brand that produces a generic image like an avatar. sfo uses the avatar type full body scanners. the naked body types generated numerous complaints about invasion of privacy. >> reporter: rip currents, live at rodeo beach. >> reporter: how good are bathe area's bar pilots? still -- the bay area's bar pilots? still ahead. >>> complete bay area news coverage continues. this is ktvu channel 2 news at

in. that is grossly irresponsible. the debt now approaching $17 trillion. president obama, the biggest spending chief executive in history. so, i have to play paul revere here. i have to continue to tell you the truth. i also believe many americans simply will not listen. and even worse, they are not smart enough, not smart enough to even care. disaster could be coming. that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. another point of view. joining us from new york city, fox business anchor lou dobbs. lou, according to a "wall street journal" poll, president obama's approval rating is at 52%. what do you think of about b. that. >> first of all inexplicable. man who has raised taxes on just about everybody. has run up 4 consecutive trillion-dollar federal budget deficits in his first term. he has an economy that is not being returned to prosperity. 23 million people still unemployed. we have, i think bill. i think if i may. you undersell folks just a little bit in that i think everybody is smart enough to know there is is a problem. i think everybody is pretty much smart eno

sentence president obama and saving the world. it is very much about movements and the power in our history to bring about a fundamental change. you do need people inside, political leaders inside. it captures the imagination of the nation. through the turbulent history, it has been movement and the power of movements. franklin roosevelt was moved by later movements. lyndon johnson had the civil rights movement. i think we begin with that. this book comes out at a moment when the country sees the power and possibility of occupy, 99%, and how that has shifted. it is still evolving. it has shifted the center of political gravity of our dialogue. the issue has been off the radar for so long. >> roosevelt surfed and harnessed those movements. he used them to get legislation passed to initiate programs. obama is still getting on his wet suit. to read the essay she wrote in 2008, there was a sense of exhibits -- exuberance. you say that hope is not optimism that expects things to turn out well. it seems like he confused those two things. >> i will come back to what i write about in the book. the

in the second term. >> reporter: president obama has high hopes for the next four years. >> i intend to carry out the agenda that i campaigned on. >> reporter: if he wants to reach that goal, history says a second-term president has got to move fast. >> power does seep away from the presidency very quickly in the second term. >> second term presidents and their congresses have two different clocks. and the president's clock is now moving toward history. and the longer view, and he can take more risks. the congressional clock is still going, according to the next election. >> reporter: but he can't push too hard. former reagan chief of staff, ken duberstein says after a second win, most presidents have an inflated view of their power. >> you have to figure out ways that you can accomplish things and go directionally in the way you're going. realizing that time is an enemy. get as much done as you can, but don't overreach. >> reporter: a lesson president obama promises he's learned. >> i'm more than familiar with all the literature about presidential overreach in second terms. we are very cauti

an oral history with him. his interview is on the senate website. >> i majored in politics. my question today, is a reasonable believe that president obama's second term will be similar or different from his first, considering that the same economic crisis still exists, even though you mentioned that the second inauguration is traditionally about more specific, what you want to talk about, now that he no longer has to run for reelection? >> second terms have been baffled totally unpredictable things. franklin roosevelt -- second terms have been filled with totally unpredictable things. franklin roosevelt, you would think he was completely in charge. the first thing he did was to ask her to increase the size of the supreme court. for support to increase the size of the supreme court. richard nixon took the oath of office after winning a huge victory in 1972. in 1973, he was on top of the world. a year-and-a-half later, he was resigning because of the water watergate scandal. there are a lot of things that you cannot predict. you hope that president after the first term are much more in c

its the first for many chicagoans even though it's a second time for the obama's. they are making the trek students performers supporters all heading to washington d.c. to witness history. they know the drill they have been through it many times before but never in front of a president. it's exciting. you get scared to meet the president. 54 young people representing the south shore drill team in the presidential inaugural parade and it almost didn't happen $25,000 trip people all over this city heard the story, $5 per year, $10 bear and generous donations for corporations and philanthropists. i don't even know how to explain it. the rich central high school band will not be performing in the parade but they're on their way to d.c. to witness the inauguration and compete in the presidential inaugural heritage music festival in baltimore. this is like history coming to life being a part of something that they will never forget to chicago six years to chicago sisters wrote essays about what it means to them and they were selected from their school to attend the inauguration. i thin

day of service . let's talk more about the inauguration and the second term for president obama. for that i want to bring in my colleague, white house correspondent dan lothian. dan, let's talk about priorities for the president's second term but first it's an interesting little nugget of history. this is a historic day and also a historic inauguration for president obama because he's going to match only fdr in getting two double swear-ins or four swearing-ins if you will. why is that? >> first of all, look back to 2009 when justice roberts and the president kind of stepped on each other, the word "faithfully" out of order, there was a question whether or not it was legitimate so, they had a second one in the private quarters of the white house. this time around the constitution says you have to administer the oath before noon on the 20th. on sunday is not typically when we have the inauguration, so they'll have a private ceremony in the blue room on sunday and then on monday they'll have the official sort of public swearing-in for the president. >> and the parade and pomp and c

. >> one of the reasons i supported president obama was i did not want to see larry summers in the white house. [laughter] with hillary clinton, until the end of her campaign, there was not a sense of how she could bring her history to bear. it was very much a restoration ist campaign. he fell if you are going to get the clinton administration part 3. -- you felt as if you were going to get the clinton administration part 3. if you feel it was such a crisis and panic at that time as many say it was coming out of the calamitous bush administration into the tar, bringing in a team of rivals as obama talked about, all you had was larry summers and tim geithner. both of them have their control over the policies that led to the crisis. in my mind, that opened the door to the tea party. it opened the door to right-wing populism. people saw in this white house favoritism towards goldman sachs and the banks. the problem was the left populism has not emerged until now. for too long, many felt with the bomb in the white house that things would be sorted out. that is where movements become importan

the debt with the debt ceiling. as you see through history, examples given it doesn't work at all. it becomes a political football, the other party not it in power, decides it's an of important thing. and president obama used to hate the debt ceilings. it's time to build something that controls the deficit properly and not arbitrary. >> brenda: toby, doesn't this basically give a blank check to washington saying we don't need a limit. at least when we have a limit we're forced to look at that number and realize how much we're borrowing. >> if that logic were true, they wouldn't have passed any of the spending stuff. first off, two countries in the world, united states and sweden who have a debt ceiling. people got rid of it, because what jonas is saying, it's political. and the second issue is, i don't want our economy held hostage and run by washington, right now, the buffoons in congress have more power over the economy with the, you know, stupid idea. if we give them this type of power we've hurt ourselves, kick the power away as far as i'm concerned. >> isn't this a dangerous

-span. we will bring you remarks from first lady michelle obama later this afternoon, and tomorrow live coverage from president official swearing-in ceremony. the smithsonian national museum of american history has a large collection of presidential inaugural artifacts. we spoke with harry rubenstein, chairman of the politics division who shared the objects from inaugurations past. >> here you are in the division of political history, and i have a number of object from our inaugural collection, which goes back to george washington, all the way to the present, and this weekend, we will be collecting additional material. inaugurations are these wonderful events. in many respects, they are like great, american holidays, like thanksgiving or the fourth of july, they are part of an american tradition -- an important one that celebrates american democracy, certainly one of the great contributions to the world and to all of our lives. that is with this material is. we try to document the individual inaugurations and the whole part of it -- not just the official part -- the parts that everyday

there. next week, nbc's chris matthews will join us for "office politics" with a look at the history of second-term presidencies and where president obama's legacy may fall in that category. >>> san francisco mayor willie brown joins me in our next hour to talk about gun violence and whether the president's new plan will work. this is "weekends with alex witt." [ male announcer ] wouldn't it be cool if we took the already great sentra apart and completely reimagined it with best-in-class combined mpg and more interior room than corolla and civic and a technology suite with bluetooth, navigation, and other handy stuff? yeah, that would be cool. introducing the all-new nissan sentra. it's our most innovative sentra ever. nissan. innovation that excites. now get a $169 per month lease on a new nissan sentra, plus $500 holiday bonus cash. ♪ is efficiently absorbed in small continuous amounts. citracal slow release continuously releases calcium plus d with efficient absorption in one daily dose. citracal slow release. ♪ i have direct deposit on my visa prepaid. my paycheck is loaded r

of the most amazing speeches of our nation's history right here on the mall. so it seems appropriate he would use his bible. we're just grateful they allowed us to use it. >> and first lady michelle obama, a power house, but the new hairdo, the bangs? >> they rock, it is a fun new hairstyle, and she wears it well. and michelle is always full of surprises, as first lady she makes everybody proud. >> reporter: you know, i had to go there, rocking the bangs. i mean, that is michelle obama, she is always setting the trends, if you will. one of the people i had a chance to talk to, bernice king, his youngest daughter, she talked about the importance of having the bible travel to the first family to be used on monday. so we'll roll that out, talk a little bit about what that means, and the connection between the obama family and king family. >> definitely looking forward to that. >> i love the bangs, don't you like them. >> wolf, we'll all have to rock the bangs, wolf, you start the trend. >> you know, i don't know if i can -- the two of you with the bangs. >> when you shave your beard, i'll get th

are so memorable they entered the history books right away. i was talk being this with my two older daughters today. we'll talk about what president obama needs to say on monday if he wants to inspire the country >> my fellow citizens pizza! [ garth ] olaf's small busins earns 2% cash back on every purchase, ery day! helium delivery. put it on my spark card! [ pop! ] [ garth ] why settle for less? great businesses deserve great rewards! awesome!!! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day! what's in your wallet? >> arthel: bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. news agency in algeria says the four-day stand-off has officially ended in a bloody assault. several militants and hostages have been killed. we are still i waiting word from the state department on the conditions of americans involved. >> rick: those controversial full body scanners at the airports around the country are going away. the tsa removing the x-ray machines after congress demanded new technology th

. this was right before the civil war ended right before he was assassinated, as well. it goes down in history as an amazing second inaugural address. but this one is tough, not just because it's generally a heavy lift but also because for president obama, it's situated between this bruisie ining fisc cliff battle and another one that is right around the corner here in about a month over the debt ceiling and the budget. he can't ignore those fakes. you know, he has to acknowledge those in a way. we expect he will. >> we he will see if president obama can break the mold in this second inaugural speech. >> it would be fun to see. that would be amazing to see a speech that is a historic second one. but the odds are against lim. >> the bar is set high. thanks so much, brianna. >> besides the inauguration, there are big stories we're following for you today. among them the developments in the terror attack in algeria involving american hostages. that crisis does now appear to be over. according to the algerian news agency, 23 hostages and 32 kidnaps have been killed. the news agency is also reporti

hand on a bible, the other raised in an oath. that's the moment in history which makes so many others try to get their hands on this. >> how many different ways can you say you support obama? >> reporter: the presidential inaugural committee store is up and running. ready for shoppers marking the occasion with officially sanctioned made in the u.s. memorabilia. what are you seeing that you like? >> i like everything. and that's my problem, because just being such a historic event, i want to have a lot of merchandise to share and a lot of merchandise to give other people who could not come and visit. >> reporter: it is likely president obama will take the oath of office on what will be a cold january day. so, people are stocking up on warm sweatshirts and these official hats, even some official blankets. one thing sold out today, the official tube socks. they're coming in tomorrow. people point out, still available online. washington is preparing for an expected crowd of about 900,000 people. they'll need to eat so about 100 permits have been issued for food trucks and vendors, down fr

that the nra more than not. go back to what they said about president obama, what they said in 2008. is going to be in handguns nationwide. he was going to be the most anti-gun president history. of course he did almost nothing to do with to do with gun control in his first four years. the brady campaign did have an pass an assessment of his record. so i took the nra due in 2012? because i said we were wrong about obama. he's not really our guy, but it's probably not going to be very matched to infringe on gun rights. they went back inside the same thing in 2012 the second 2008 have been proven wrong about. , freed the nra is mostly interested in whipping up hysteria to raise money for itself and perpetuate itself rather than do anything productive. >> the responsible members of the nra raise their hand and say wait a minute. >> i wouldn't hold my breath on that. >> how much do you think the nra is promoting gun manufacturers and gun sellers? >> i mean, i don't know what they get their funding. they obviously get some from the gun industry and you can make a case that this sort of tech takes

, and they got it right. >> jim walked through the history of democracy's big day. monday at 8:00 a.m. eastern the book featuring president obama, congress and martin luther king jr., part of a three-day holiday weekend on c-span 2's book tv. c-span. created by america's cable companies in 1979 brought to you as a public service. >> in 1981, ronald regan was inaugurated as the u.s.'s 40th president. former california governor had won the election against the incumbent president, jimmy carter. the iran hostage crisis where 52 americans were held for days after a group of militants took over the u.s. ambassador in iran. this is about 25 minutes. as he was giving his speech, the hostages were being released. >> governor, are you prepared to take the constitutional oath? >> i am. >> place your hand on the bible and repeat after me. i ronald regan do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. and will, to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. so help you god. may i congratulate you, sir. [applause]

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